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Factor Ostro VAM review: WorldTour handling with world-class refinement, good manners and loads of options

WorldTour bikes don’t always come in as refined a package, but in the Ostro Vam, Factor is delivering both performance and that special something that makes a bike usable in the real world

Cycling Weekly

Over 100 issues, Quarterly Essay has generated news, controversy – and the occasional explosive scene

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

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Is Australia still a lucky country – or has the ‘Australian way’ lost its way?

Suddenly everyone is talking about the “Australian way”. This is partly a nervous response by the prime minister to the reelection of Donald Trump, and partly (relatedly) a desire more generally to talk about “Australian values”.

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Trent Dalton, Bri Lee and Melissa Leong’s ‘raw’ memoir: the best Australian books out in October

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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A.D. Hope called a Patrick White novel ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these literary rivals

A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable influence over his generation. His…

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Alexis Wright has revitalised Australian literature, but a new book by a ‘superfan’ overlooks an important aspect of her work

Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has been garlanded with awards and ascended to new heights of international recognition, including entering the betting table last year as…

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Factor drops the new Aluto straight into the path of the Ostro Gravel but is the Ostro 'aero enough' to not take customers straight to the Aluto?

Factor's Ostro Gravel is certainly more 'gravel-race', but how relevant can it remain if the Aluto might upstage it in so many other ways?

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Factor's new Aluto gravel bike aims to be the jack of all trades, and it's got one feature I absolutely love

Lightweight, adaptable, and aiming to be a foil to the race-ready Ostro Gravel

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Gallery: Mike Woods' beautiful watercolour Factor Ostro VAM for the Tour de France

This fresh paint scheme is being used by the whole team for the Tour

Cycling News

Factor launches Monza as an aero race bike for the masses

New Factor road bike retains many of the features of the Ostro VAM, but with simplified construction

Cycling News

I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft

Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist

The Guardian - AU

Black Inc has asked authors to sign AI agreements. But why should writers help AI learn how to do their job?

Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc Books is seeking to partner with an unnamed AI company or companies and wants its authors to allow their work to be used to train artificial intelligence.

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‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements

Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system

The Guardian - AU

WorldTour bikes 2025: our guide to the most awesome tech in the pro peloton

We run you through all the spectacular bikes and components in the WorldTour this year

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Women's WorldTour bikes and tech: What are teams using in 2025?

FDJ Suez switch to Specialized bikes and components, Team Picnic PostNL switch to Lapierre, and UAE Team ADQ still has a parmesan sponsor

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‘A final warning from God’: Lech Blaine’s memoir pits an average Australian family against an avenging archangel

They say everyone has a book inside them. Some people are unfortunate enough to have more than one.

The Guardian - AU

Music memoirs, cooking classes and squatting at Kanye’s: the best Australian books out in November

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine review – a sensational tale, skilfully told

Author’s compassion and progressive vision of family stand out in incredible saga charting the acrimonious relationship between two families

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Mismatched bikes and wheels 'not a cost factor', says Australia performance director at Paris Olympics

Women's team pursuit squad using three different bike brands at the Games

Cycling Weekly

We rode over 2000 kilometres in order to crown our Race Bike of the Year

We test race machines from Specialized, Giant, Canyon, Enve and more...but which superbike came out on top?

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‘Ideal for a night in, hiding from the cold’: the best Australian books out in June

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Cycling Weekly

Friday Roundup: Race-winning wheels, featherweight shoes, an artisan photo stick and Cycling Weekly goes racing, sort of...

Black Inc's 48/58 wheelset now available for the rest of us and Fizik makes a light but bright statement...

Cycling News

The new Factor Ostro VAM is faster, lighter, and has rule-bending bottle-cages

Impressively lightweight Black Inc wheels also launched

Cycling News

Detailed gallery: A closer look at the unreleased Factor Ostro VAM

Simon Clarke's brand new aero bike from the Tour Down Under

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Women's WorldTour bikes and tech: What are teams using in 2024?

Lapierre remains with FDJ, UAE Team ADQ has a cheese sponsor and Orbea enter the WorldTour again.

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